Michael Jordan Inspiring Words

[Michael Jeffrey Jordan:]Source: LYBIO.net
Maybe it’s my fault. Maybe I led you to believe it was easy,
When it wasn’t.

Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line,
And not in the gym.

Maybe I made you think that every shot I took was a game winner.
That my game was built on flash, and not fire.

Maybe it’s my fault that you didn’t see that failure gave me strength,
That my pain was my motivation.

Maybe I led you to believe that basketball was a God given gift,
And not something I worked for,
Every single day of my life.

Maybe I destroyed the game.
Or maybe,
You just making excuses.

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[Interviewer:]
What person had the biggest impact on your career?

[Michael Jordan:]
My brother [Larry Jordan].

[Interviewer:]
Your brother.

[Michael Jordan:]
He’s a year older than I, he’s much smaller than I, and he was my challenge, my competition as a kid, basketball, sports – he wanted to excel, I wanted to excel, we competed against each other in the backyard in basketball, we end up in fights, arguments, you know, about the sport. So my determination came trying to beat him. If I can beat him, I can beat anybody.

[Michael Jordan:]
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

[Michael Jordan:]
And my family is pretty much hardworking my mother had two jobs, my father had two jobs. He was a type of guy who uh… [smiles] was mechanically inclined. I learned the hard work ethics that he basically used to you know, to live our life.

Look me in the eyes.
It’s okay if you’re scared,
So am I.
But we’re scared for different reasons.
I’m scared of what I won’t become,
and you’re scared of what I could become.
Look at me.
I won’t let myself end where I started,
I won’t let myself finish where I began.
I know what is within me,
Even if you can’t see it yet.
Look me in the eyes.
I have something more important than courage,
I have patience.
I will become,
what I know I am.

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[Michael Jordan:]Source: L Y B I O . N E T
I just played the sport cause I loved it, and because of the work that I put into it, next thing you know success was kind of bestowed upon me without me actually chasing it. It just happened. I just didn’t think I would ever be this successful because I don’t overshadow anyone, I love for us to be successful, but I believe, and I’ve always believed that when a team is successful everybody shines, all the individual accolades take care of themselves, everybody’s going to blossom from this whole situation. So when I’m with my team and you see it, you know, I’m not going to be the one that overshadows everyone, if you – I want you comments as much as his comments, if you are expecting me to carry the whole weight or speak the whole time – I don’t wanna do that cause then I’m taking more of a responsibility when you are just as an adult as I am. You have an opinion as much as I do – we need that to form this team.

[Voice Over (Man):]
Everyday the first person there before the sun would be Jordan. He was there because he wasn’t good. He would work with a batting instructor and work all day long, and be the last person to leave every night also. I asked him what it was like for him in the morning, and Jordan said, I get up before the sun comes up, and I make myself some breakfast by myself. He was down there alone, and I get in the car and I’m driving to spring training and there’s no one really out on the road yet, and I look at the seat next to me, and I see my dad, and I talk to him, I think to myself, ‘paps, we’re doing this’, ‘we’re doing this together.’ And the day would end, and he would say this to the batting instructor, ‘could we a little more, I think I’m getting this, I think I’m learning this, I think I’m getting this’. And that’s when Sports Illustrated put him on the cover, saying that Michael Jordan has embarrassed baseball. And as I would watch him there every night, as the sun was going down and the other ballplayers had left, and I would see this guy working to get better – Michael Jordan working to get better. I couldn’t help thinking that if you ever have children, you ought to pray that they grow up someday to embarrass you like this.